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General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousness.

Prog Brain Res 2005 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(05)50017-7 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Key points Argues that general anesthesia offers a powerful experimental approach to investigate the neural correlates of consciousness, and that anesthetic-induced unconsciousness results from disruption of integrated neural activity across distributed brain networks.

Abstract

General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousness.